The Early

You loving these early sunrises? Well tomorrow is the second earliest sunrise of the year, only Saturday will be earlier at 5:27am. On Sunday as the clocks goes forward an hour, we'll say goodbye to these extended…

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25 • 27 • 29

25, 27, 29 - those are your lucky numbers, especially if you've got the next three days off. We're in for a sensation run of weather with top temperatures creeping up into the high twenties…

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Suits

It was absolutely bucketing down at 5am this morning. In fact, it was raining so hard that the noise actually woke me 10 minutes before my alarm had a chance to jolt me out of bed.

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Red Dawn

Ten years ago this week, Sydney awoke fully engulfed in a deep red haze of fine dust, blown in from outback New South Wales hundreds of kilometres away. The outside world resembled a scene from the surface of Mars…

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Bonus

It's another sweet Spring day with bucketloads of sunshine, a groomed ocean and just a little pop in south swell. The waves were a little slow and the tide a touch high at first light but I suspect we'll see a little more …

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Sweet Spring

It's another sweet Spring day with bucketloads of sunshine, a groomed ocean and just a little pop in south swell. The waves were a little slow and the tide a touch high at first light but I suspect we'll see a little more …

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Abundance

The spring sunshine is in absolute abundance this morning. Queue that up with a very light offshore wind and some neat little log waves and the scene is pretty much picture perfect for whatever takes your fancy…

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5:44 am

Morning! There's a fine Monday unfolding outside. Notice how much time we've got in the morning right now? We're in that sweet window of the year where first light is close to 5am and there's time enough to fit in all…

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Blew It

Ok. Yep, yesterday I blew it.
As soon as I hit send on my pessimistic post Grim the sun emerged from behind the clouds, the wind dropped

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Grim

It's day three of hitting the snooze button in Manly. That extra seven or fourteen or twenty-one minutes of sleep is going to be paying productivity dividends when it's time to open the emails and get some focus…

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Glass & Light

Sensational morning out on the Tasman today. Conditions were as glassy as it gets and there was a lumpy little east swell spreading out random peaks of goodness all under a setting moon and beautiful Spring light…

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Mildly

It might be Friday the 13th but there's nothing too scary about this morning. It's a mild one on just about all measures. The temperature at dawn was comfortable, there's a light onshore wind only just disturbing the…

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Stellar

It's Thursday and our run of swell continues. This morning the swell has angled around to the east so Manly's seeing a greater share of the energy, it feels like it might even be a touch bigger than yesterday.

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Alarm

Not much to say about this morning other than it's a good one! Real good! The sun's out, there's 4ft+ of SE swell and the wind is a very favourable light offshore.

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The Slide

The south swell is up but it's wind affected and raw and already sliding down the metrics. Looks like the peak of the swell was around 10pm last night at 5.5m and it's been on a slowish decline ever since….

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Building

Well that was a wild weekend and there's more to come! Strong winds and a solid southerly swell are bolting up the Tasman and by this afternoon it's going to be triple overhead at the most exposed south-facing beaches…

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